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We are live in Houston, Texans
at the iHeart Radio building, and we

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didn't get out of sleep last night, but we did have a lot of

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fun and high fives and labs and
mayor humps with Kevin Turner, fan,

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Mike Siroy, Danny Bayless. We
had J. J. Jackson back in

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Dallas making sure that we don't get
off bumped off the air, anything crazy

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like that. We're in a conference
room in an iHeart building and I purposely

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did not where my Rangers at any
boldly did wear his Rangers hat. Why

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boldly one outfit? Yeah, well, you brought one suit on this trip.

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You could have worn suit. That
didn't mean your cows suit much.

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I suppose we'll get into You could
have worn the black suit. Yeah,

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I was been a little coffee,
I guess right. Yeah, it's a

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little dirty too. After our Alamo
Draft House session, I think that's a

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couple of weeks back and we did
the commercial for them. Yes, oh

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I had to wear the suit.
Actually dirty. I thought you meant like

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dirty. Uh yeah, you have
a range your cap on. You don't

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want to represented this morning. I
sweat through mine yesterday. Yeah, look

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at us Houston, this is weird
three boys in Houston. It is weird

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and it's awesome. And yesterday at
this time, we didn't know we were

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doing this. It was kind of
wild too, like this. Sure,

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it was a long day for a
lot of reasons, and just I kind

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of was just thinking about that on
the drive in from our hotel room,

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motel, motel and going, man, it was twenty four hours ago when

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you know, we decided to try
to do this. It was like a

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three minute drive though, that's when
you were thinking about it. It's just

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that little Yeah, I didn't want
to talk too much. We both appreciate

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that. It want to be a
morning small talk guy. We got trapped

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in it in a lobby and I
just walked away. I think I'm a

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little friendlier at five point thirty in
the morning than most. Danny was trying

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to take part in a big discussion
on we need more Cowboys versus Texans.

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You know in the regular season.
Are there some things that Roger Goodell in

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the NFL can do to make that
happen and make that game a little more

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special with the guy at the hotel
at the extended stay, Yeah, yeah,

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an annual game he wanted he had
it down in Austin. Yeah,

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kr, I did not summarily dismiss
that conversation as I normally maybe would,

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but I'm in a damn good mood
today, so yes of course I told

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him that it's probably not a bad
idea to blow up the NFC. While

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me and Mikey were grabbing as many
muffins as violating, I was reaching past

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the one muffin zigne while Danny pulled
a diversion out. I had a backpack

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full of muffins. That's eventine work. You know, breakfast is milk,

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chocolate cashoes from BUCkies. Yeah.
Yeah, it was a nice purchase,

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though, it was a great purchase. It was good. Yeah. So

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yesterday, at this time, I
remember Mikey said something like, you know

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what, I think I have an
idea and we'll do it at six point

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thirty just for I mean almost have
to just had an idea. I figured,

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even if something to discuss, like
the idea of at six thirty am

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saying why not go on this sports
adventure. I want to give you credit

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though, because I think in hindsight
it was somewhat of whether you realize that

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or not, at the time,
it was somewhat of a power move,

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because you could have had that idea
of, hey, why don't we just

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see if we can get a car
and drive to Houston and we'll find tickets

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and let's just find you know,
some slap d hotel somewhere and just go

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to the game and be there.
You know, I think if you present

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that idea to somebody off the air, it's early. Nobody wants to deal

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with any big task. It's a
Monday, you know, they might just

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go yeah, but I mean but
no, no, no. But like

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if you if you brought that up
to bosses, they might just think,

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yeah, yeah, maybe next year
we'll do that. But when you,

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when you make the bold choice to
talk about it on the air and kind

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of spring it on us, do
we start thinking, man, that's not

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a bad idea. It kind of
puts a little bit of uh, unexpected

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pressure on those in power to make
those decisions to where once you get the

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listeners on board, you know at
least this is what they want. Yeah,

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it makes it really difficult for them
to say no or just dismiss it

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because they're tired. And I'll be
damned if Zach didn't jump on board immediately

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we called him cold called him at
home, which another power move. It's

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a terrifying call to receipt, but
he knows we're on air. I don't

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know if it's a power move as
much as irresponsible. It's okay, but

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okay, subconsciously it's a power move. It may not be something that you're

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thinking, all right, I'm gonna
muscle this guy into get us to Houston

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today. It's just passive aggressive all
because it's Yeah, he never sleeps Beat.

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He told me yesterday that it's by
far his favorite show on the Yeah.

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And then Ben's ways talking about because
I don't know, and then I'll

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be damned Ben doesn't come through.
It gets us a freaking big old Ford

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expedition. That's one things probably before
Goton give me one second because to your

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first point. Years ago, when
the Cowboys played the UH Packers in the

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does Catch game, I remember I
have a text he that was some friends

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and it was my buddy Joel,
who you guys know, and I think

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it was Wednesday of that week and
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looked up tickets to you know,
Lambeau and it's not as much as I

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thought, you know, just kind
of passively said that, and then another

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text, you know, minutes later
said say, everyone want to go to

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Lambo, and it was sort of
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would be awesome. And then you
wait about five minutes and you're like,

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yeah, I want to go.
And I think we all with a lot

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of opportunities, you know, dismiss
them as oh, that's that would be

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great. Then we actually think about
it. It's not the end of the

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damn world, you know. And
that was just to go to a game,

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you know. That wasn't the logistics
required for what we're doing today.

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And my heart being cool and sending
us down here and helping out and everything.

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But I think before that, I
like, I, had I not

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done that, I don't know if
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have considered this being something that's viable
because we did it and it was like,

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you know what, that was only
a few days notice and we did

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it, and it's not impossible.
It's nothing. Impossible is nothing, you

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know, I don't understand what that
means. No, it's the sign that

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they rolled out on the field.
That's what I thought you were referencing.

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Loose without faith, nothing is possible, but with it, everything is possible.

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Sort of, two wives and girlfriends
unfold a very long inspirational arranger message

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and got a smattering of applause,
and then they just kind of set the

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banner down on the ground and went
back to frenching hot baseball husbands and reverencing

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like after the ALCS, you know, trophy presentation, Yeah, you know,

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after after the team all huddles up
and jumps around and then they put

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them on TV and give a few
speeches. A couple of wives and girlfriends

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six nine sign and we could we
could even start there. Hang on real

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quick. I want to go back
to what you were saying as far as

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the inspiration to do this. I
think that's an interesting thought because I think,

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as you know, maybe not so
much to to in Kevin's case,

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but I know in mine and maybe
to yours. To a certain degree,

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you get a little bit older,
you start thinking more, you're more routine

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based, you start thinking about things
with I don't know, a more measured

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thought process, and you're not so
prone to jumping on an impulsive idea or

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an impulsive decision or a thought.
You just kind of like, that's gonna

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kind of throw off the balance of
my world a little bit. But doing

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that, having that thing come together
yesterday, having the idea to do it,

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talking about it, and then actually
really considering it, and then getting

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a little momentum with our teammates,
with our bosses, our teammates to kind

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of it becomes kind of viral,
where like the excitement is infectious a little

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bit, and people are like,
you know what, that's that's okay,

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what can I do to help this? And the next thing you know,

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you're here and you look back and
realize that wasn't that difficult And it was

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pretty freaking cheap. Yeah, okay. So most people might think, oh,

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you know, I could never go
to an American League championship game.

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That just sounds so expensive. I
don't know if I'm pulling back the curtain

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here too much. But for three
blokes like us that were able to get,

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I don't know, those seats weren't
terrible. No, we were,

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I mean those I liked where we
sat at the upper but dude, the

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sight lines were great fun and we
got but to Houston and a hotel overnight

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and we got I mean, dude, it was around five hundred bars for

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everything tickets and hotel rooms, three
separate hotel rooms. We did this on

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the cheap for sure, because look, radio stations are not you know,

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they're not so prone to spending a
lot of money. We're not Silicon Valley,

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no. But it was a lot
less expensive than most people would think.

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And it was just a matter of
getting a few people on our side

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and pitching in a little bit and
the next thing you know, we're in

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there freaking going nuts. The Ford
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so we didn't have to find anything
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And I saw a couple comments from
listeners and things like that, and

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one guy just said, you know, I'm going to trade in my car

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today, Ford Gap, but I'm
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Worth it for prosper Ford. I
hope you know one guy does business.

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But because of this, but like
assuming our bosses, I gets reimbursed

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for everything. I mean, I
think we made this all happen under seven

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hundred bucks total. Yeah, for
the three of us. And we met

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listeners and had people on social media
telling us, you guys were my inspiration.

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I bought tickets at eight thirty am
yesterday morning, or I bought tickets

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at lunch break at work yesterday and
decided to do it. It's just that

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was awesome. I mean when we
were on the road and a guy who

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was a trucker rolled his window down
and honked at us and was like,

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took a picture of us, but
he was like, we love you guys.

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I was like, we're doing something
good here. Put your head in

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the driver's lap. And I never
feed this this sound crazy because I did

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it. I wish we could thank
you the driver appreciate practice. If we

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could take a million or all millions
of our listeners with us at the game,

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that would have been great. That's
the ideal thing, is every single

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one of them. But I do
believe that if we can in some form

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bring listener with us on the journey
for a minute, even though like you

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know, we're the radio guys.
You got to go kick ass at the

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game last night. I got I
get that, but there's some element and

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there's people like they're sending messages and
there was like, oh, I'm so

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happy you guys made it, and
that made me feel good, Like why

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why would you care if we were
there or not? And people did.

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I think it was because of the
organic, you know, nature of how

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it all happened and how kind of
flying by the seat of our pants that

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this whole operation. Yeah, totally. I don't know. On a personal

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level, like I was saying,
you get a little bit older and you

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start thinking things, you're just kind
of setting your ways, and it just

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reminded me that it's really not that
difficult to just just say f it and

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take a chance and just do something. Even even though it's a four hour

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drive to Houston. It's so close
that tickets were pretty easy to get.

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You know, you can get a
hotel in any city. It's not that

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difficult. But it's nice every once
in a while just to say, you

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know what, let's just try Yes, let's do it. Yes, say

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yes, at least say you know
what, I think we might be able

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to do that, and then follow
up a little bit well much like no.

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It was cool, man, It
was really Thanksgiving. The gravy set

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it off. It was the prosper
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thing, and to go when we're
like, you're serious, they're gonna let

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us borrow a car vehicle a car
was seven miles on it. Yeah,

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a vehicle. And then I got
there and I'm like, oh oh,

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and this thing is, like I
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cars. Right. Yeah, we
don't belong even riding in that car,

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much less being tossed the keys to
it. Yeah, and I wonder,

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you know, so Ben's wife,
Ben Rodgers of the Ben skinch you of

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course tend to too. Had I
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a flimsy but a yes, I
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feel flimsy. It's very sweet.
He was saying, Oh, yeah,

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I'm she's been trained over twenty years
to know when to play radio with how

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Benn calls her, sure you can
have my car morning show as she rolls

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her eyes and he getting yes,
I'm going anywhere near that place. Yeah,

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but also likes his phone's blowing up
the second you guys are a Frankel

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spot. Yeah, yeah, exactly
before the Frankel spot ended, right,

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And clearly the whole show is going
to be like a lot about some of

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the things from the game and all
kinds of stuff because the stinking Texas Rangers

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are going with the World Series and
that sounds crazy. But it's happening again

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and it's awesome and we're gonna have
a big ride. You can call and

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text in two and four eight when
seven seven, eight, seven, one,

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nine seven to one, all morning
long. At eight thirty, we're

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gonna do kind of a subscriber edition
of the Dingus Morning News where if you

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want to call in, or you
have questions about our trip, or questions

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about some things in the game,
or if you made the trip, if

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you made the trip, you know
whatever, if you get something eight thirty

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five, we'll kind of do that. Take your calls and text and all

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that stuff. We'll be taking your
text all morning long. One thing I

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was thinking about this last night that
I do kind of want to say this

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is not, and never was intended
to be a sports station. And I

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know we haven't talked about that in
months when we felt like we needed to

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say it a lot. When the
station launched, I think we were kind

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of going out of our way to
say this is not a sports station in

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our town. Though sports is a
part of everything. We all know that,

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and we're all, you know,
fans of sports or whatever. We're

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talking a little bit of sports.
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like listening even on the ride down, how all the shows like handled talking

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about like The Rangers. It's all
very casual and feeling based and very fun

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and for us for them to let
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this or whether it was someone putting
something together to let us go to the

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sphere, you know whatever. I'm
trying to think of that next were other

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experiences. I do think that's what
the station should be about. And it's

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early. We all know we're in
year one of our station, right,

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and so but the more stuff like
this we can do. And again props

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to Zach, our program director,
for being like, yeah, let's go

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and take it, you know,
but also like Mike's idea and all of

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our right, just kind of like, let's not just like it's a lawn

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chair Friday. It's the listeners are
in on it too. It's all that

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stuff. There's just like, let's
just get as weird as we can get

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at all times. Please more of
that because that makes yesterday fun. Like

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yesterday, doing yesterday's show, I
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all based in good faith. And
maybe it was just the fact that the

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Rangers were in Game seven last night. Yeah, but you know, it

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was like a big propeller to more. Let's get more and more and more.

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It was so fun, it seems
I don't know if surreal is the

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right way to describe it, but
it's so unexpected. And I think you

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mentioned it to somebody last night,
maybe it was a fellow Ranger fan at

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the stadium, that it just doesn't
feel real yet. And I think that

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if you are a fan of the
Astros, for example, you kind of

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expect to be in the World Series
this season, right, you won it

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last year. There's an expectation that
you you were not surprised at all.

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If the Astros won last night and
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no surprise is there at all.
This wasn't supposed to happen for this team

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until maybe next year or the year
after, right, Yeah. So the

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fact that it is so at the
time and over the season and the way

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the season win and the way it
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to I think it just adds an

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element of surprise where it just hasn't
really sunk in yet that we're going back

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after eleven years of not going,
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It just hasn't sunk in for me
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of hit me during the game there
because because of the Whirl win, the

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yesterday was for us with the travel
and everything, and then oh my god,

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we're at the game. Oh my
god, and then they have a

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lead. It almost took me the
second or third inning when I was like,

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I mean we could we could be
watching this team go to the World

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Series. I know, as dumb
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what we're there for. There's something
about watching on TV that the routine of

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it all, and you know,
you're used to the site lines and just

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the tension that goes along with that, but being there and then as the

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lead got bigger and bigger, you
know, and then we're hesitant to even

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talk about it. Yeah, but
like we're three innings away from going to

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the World Series. Nothing else,
not a win, not just a regular

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win, nothing like that. I
mean, this is we're on that short

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list of biggest wins in franchise history, a real short list when you factor

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in the Astros dominance and being on
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I don't know, it just felt
I felt like out of body almost

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watching it, like this is wild
that the way that we comported ourselves during

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the game was reflective of of what
you just described, because at no point

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did anybody like really near us or
definitely not us at any point, no

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matter how big the lead was,
was it ever like f Yeah, it

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was very oh my god, dude, celebrations like our celebrations were, you

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know, kind of like little quiet
fist bumps or maybe two oh my god,

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you know, very cool and chill
about the whole thing. Because if

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we'd sit down and go, all
right, keep going. We need more,

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yeah, I tend to to.
I'm like, I'd feel a little

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better if we were twelve to two. Yeah, really, you know,

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we need more insurance. And no
greed in that at all. It's just

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the pure fact that we know what
our bullpen is capable of doing on the

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high end and the low end.
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I know it's been three four years
since I worked in what would be classified

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as all sports or the reason I
left the last station I was at in

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twenty nineteen was because there were some
mandates put in place that were talking more

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sports and take all calls and do
all sports, and they didn't want anything

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lifestyle based, and it sucked the
fun out of my life. And I'm

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getting where I didn't even enjoy watching
sports anymore. And then now once I

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got out of that, and that
was kind of a temporary mandate anyways,

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But once I moved over to I
Heearten was the Eagle. For a while,

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I was still doing a talk show
like this, but been in skinning

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now on this show, like,
I've enjoyed sports so much more because it's

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not my life. It's not something
that we had to have to do,

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you know. Obviously the Rangers are
and the Cowboys and Mavericks and Star everything.

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It's all part of the fabric of
the city. But man, I've

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had so much more fun watching sports
the last four years when it hasn't been

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technically your job. I agree,
and I think it. I think it's

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probably a lot more a burger probably
tastes a lot more delicious, and you

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enjoy it more when you're not the
dude that killed the cow, you know,

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and when you're seriously and when you
were working in that business where it's

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when the expectation is to spend more
time breaking down deeper stuff about the games.

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And I look, I'm fascinated by
that stuff, maybe just as much

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as the next guy. I think
it's really interesting. But just when it's

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the expectation is that's what your touchstone
is for your show's identity or the station's

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identity, it just becomes a little
it's hard to enjoy it. I've lost

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my care to see live sports.
I don't like going to games because you

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spend twenty two years where that is
the focus, and it's like, hey,

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you guys veered too much off the
sports path. Here. We need

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to get back on less stuff about
your dumb life and let's talk more about

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sports. And we went through that. Even though our former station was you

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know, somewhat balanced and allowed us
to do some personal stuff, it's still

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it's called the name sports is in
the name of the station, So there

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is that expectation that you have to
kind of keep going back to that where

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I think I love the freedom that
we have we talk about sports because it

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is the most important thing in our
worlds. Yeah, for that given day

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or weekend or whatever. And I
think I think that's maybe how most people

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operate yeah, yeah, and it's
we if you listen to the subtleties of

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the differences too, Like I think
we have fun with all this like a

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less technical base, you know,
unless like you said, when I'd watch

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sports, I would have notes pages, you know, for every show,

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you know, like specifics and this
inning, this happened in this And we

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can hit on any and all of
that stuff if if it fits, you

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know, if we want to.
But I think more of the overarching look

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at the whole thing, Like you
said, going to a live game.

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It's hard to go to a live
game and then go in the next day

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and really break down what happened,
you know, because you just see it

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differently. You don't watch it,
and you see a lot closer when you're

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on TV watching on TV as far
as the nuance of little things and little

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moments that you might miss. But
when you're at the game like we were

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last night here down in Houston,
you see the big picture and you get

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to kind of soak up the vibe
of it and tell people that story,

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which is I think more fun.
I agree, then break down this,

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this, this, and this,
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last night. Our seats were in
I would say, what about almost to

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the down the right field line,
okay, our first base line near near

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the between fal pole and first base, okay, And you're you're stuck in

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that one position. You know,
you're stuck in those seats for the majority

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of the game. There's not replay
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it. You're limited to one vantage
point on what you can see anyway,

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And I was commenting with Mikey last
night, It's like, oh my god,

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you can't see the local cation of
the pitches, but the speed of

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the pitches are so evident, it's
so apparent. How you know what you

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can tell if it's a curveball or
a change up as opposed to a fastball,

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because it is night and day from
that angle, you know, from

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that kind of a lateral angle.
Whereas, I get it why these guys

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are fooled. I get it why
these guys from their vantage point seeing it

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coming right at them, it looks
like the same speed, but obviously it's

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not. I know, this is
baseball pitching whatever, one oh one.

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But just having that perspective, that's
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But as far as anything else,
really, that happened in the game that

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you would see by watching the game
on TV. You're kind of limited.

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I don't have any notes for today. Well, I mean I have a

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few things based off memory. And
then it's also like the go double check

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and say what happened there, because
there are some big question marks that happened

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in that game, like early in
that game. We'll get into that a

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little bit probably I then we do
that. Next, Let's let's go aheit

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a break. Mike's got a huge
low tie in her live spot coming up

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what he's been talking about, and
also is our prosper for it SUV gonna

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get towed all next to ninety seven
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